Rebecca Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 3873371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9156-8782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Women Are Not Adult Human Females
Some philosophers argue that women are adult human females. Call this the Adult Human Female thesis (AHF). The aim of this paper is to show that AHF is false
Scottish Women’s and Gender History and Women Historians in Scotland
The Royal Historical Society’s G ender Equality report in 2018, as well as a number of smaller surveys, suggests that while women now make up a significant proportion of those studying advanced degrees in history, they remain under-represented both in academic institutions (especially at higher levels) and in journals and similar high-esteem publications. Women’s and gender history has been one subfield where this is not the case; if both men and…
Coercion or Consent? Women, Property and Legal Authority in Early Modern Scotland
During the early modern period women's ownership of property was significantly constrained by the marital relationship. Scots law stipulated that much of a woman's property passed to her husband on marriage and that her ability to sell, control or dispose of much property without her husband's consent was severely restricted. Yet, despite such strict legal rules, jurists were aware that a married woman could be placed in a difficult position if h…
Social kinds are essentially mind-dependent
Women, Marital Status, and Law
Early modern women are often categorized by historians in relation to their marital status—whether they appeared as single, married, or widowed women. These identifications reflected the effects of marriage on women's legal and social status. Focusing on the records of the burgh and commissary courts of seventeenth-century Glasgow, this article shows how Scottish women's legal status existed instead on a “marital spectrum,” including liminal phas…
Making a living, making a difference
Making a living, making a difference: gender and work in early modern European society." Women's History Review, 27(3), pp. 496–497
Spence, Women, Credit, and Debt in Early Modern Scotland
The metaphysics of social kinds
It is a truism that humans are social animals. Thus, it is no surprise that we understand the world, each other, and ourselves in terms of social kinds such asmoney and marriage, warandwomen, capitalistsandcartels, races, recessions, andrefugees. Social kinds condition our expectations, inform our preferences, and guide our behavior. Despite the prevalence and importance of social kinds, philosophy has historically devoted relatively little atten…
Two Kinds of Unknowing
Miranda Fricker claims that a “gap” in collective hermeneutical resources with respect to the social experiences of marginalized groups prevents members of those groups from understanding their own experiences (Fricker 2007). I argue that because Fricker misdescribes dominant hermeneutical resources as collective, she fails to locate the ethically bad epistemic practices that maintain gaps in dominant hermeneutical resources even while alternativ…
Reorienting Deliberation
Many political theorists argue that cross-cultural communication within multicultural democracies is not best served by a commitment to identity politics. In response, I argue that identity politics only interfere with democratic participation according to an erroneous interpretation of the relationship between identity and reasoning. I argue that recognizing the importance of identity to the intelligibility of reasons offered in the context of c…
Two Kinds of Unknowing
Miranda Fricker claims that a “gap” in collective hermeneutical resources with respect to the social experiences of marginalized groups prevents members of those groups from understanding their own experiences (Fricker 2007). I argue that because Fricker misdescribes dominant hermeneutical resources as collective, she fails to locate the ethically bad epistemic practices that maintain gaps in dominant hermeneutical resources even while alternativ…
The metaphysics of social kinds
It is a truism that humans are social animals. Thus, it is no surprise that we understand the world, each other, and ourselves in terms of social kinds such asmoney and marriage, warandwomen, capitalistsandcartels, races, recessions, andrefugees. Social kinds condition our expectations, inform our preferences, and guide our behavior. Despite the prevalence and importance of social kinds, philosophy has historically devoted relatively little atten…
Women, Marital Status, and Law
Early modern women are often categorized by historians in relation to their marital status—whether they appeared as single, married, or widowed women. These identifications reflected the effects of marriage on women's legal and social status. Focusing on the records of the burgh and commissary courts of seventeenth-century Glasgow, this article shows how Scottish women's legal status existed instead on a “marital spectrum,” including liminal phas…
Coercion or Consent? Women, Property and Legal Authority in Early Modern Scotland
During the early modern period women's ownership of property was significantly constrained by the marital relationship. Scots law stipulated that much of a woman's property passed to her husband on marriage and that her ability to sell, control or dispose of much property without her husband's consent was severely restricted. Yet, despite such strict legal rules, jurists were aware that a married woman could be placed in a difficult position if h…
Making a living, making a difference
Making a living, making a difference: gender and work in early modern European society." Women's History Review, 27(3), pp. 496–497
Reorienting Deliberation
Many political theorists argue that cross-cultural communication within multicultural democracies is not best served by a commitment to identity politics. In response, I argue that identity politics only interfere with democratic participation according to an erroneous interpretation of the relationship between identity and reasoning. I argue that recognizing the importance of identity to the intelligibility of reasons offered in the context of c…
Two Kinds of Unknowing
Miranda Fricker claims that a “gap” in collective hermeneutical resources with respect to the social experiences of marginalized groups prevents members of those groups from understanding their own experiences (Fricker 2007). I argue that because Fricker misdescribes dominant hermeneutical resources as collective, she fails to locate the ethically bad epistemic practices that maintain gaps in dominant hermeneutical resources even while alternativ…
The metaphysics of social kinds
It is a truism that humans are social animals. Thus, it is no surprise that we understand the world, each other, and ourselves in terms of social kinds such asmoney and marriage, warandwomen, capitalistsandcartels, races, recessions, andrefugees. Social kinds condition our expectations, inform our preferences, and guide our behavior. Despite the prevalence and importance of social kinds, philosophy has historically devoted relatively little atten…
Spence, Women, Credit, and Debt in Early Modern Scotland
Making a living, making a difference
Making a living, making a difference: gender and work in early modern European society." Women's History Review, 27(3), pp. 496–497
Women, Marital Status, and Law
Early modern women are often categorized by historians in relation to their marital status—whether they appeared as single, married, or widowed women. These identifications reflected the effects of marriage on women's legal and social status. Focusing on the records of the burgh and commissary courts of seventeenth-century Glasgow, this article shows how Scottish women's legal status existed instead on a “marital spectrum,” including liminal phas…
Social kinds are essentially mind-dependent
Scottish Women’s and Gender History and Women Historians in Scotland
The Royal Historical Society’s G ender Equality report in 2018, as well as a number of smaller surveys, suggests that while women now make up a significant proportion of those studying advanced degrees in history, they remain under-represented both in academic institutions (especially at higher levels) and in journals and similar high-esteem publications. Women’s and gender history has been one subfield where this is not the case; if both men and…
Coercion or Consent? Women, Property and Legal Authority in Early Modern Scotland
During the early modern period women's ownership of property was significantly constrained by the marital relationship. Scots law stipulated that much of a woman's property passed to her husband on marriage and that her ability to sell, control or dispose of much property without her husband's consent was severely restricted. Yet, despite such strict legal rules, jurists were aware that a married woman could be placed in a difficult position if h…
Women Are Not Adult Human Females
Some philosophers argue that women are adult human females. Call this the Adult Human Female thesis (AHF). The aim of this paper is to show that AHF is false
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works) · History (4 works)